PNG champion, Marcus Ng, beat Arana Taviri, current BSP PNG Minor Title holder, Marcus Rahman defeated Willie Vaieke and PNG women champion, Geua John, beat Vani Toka while Charlie Tom lost to Nathan Fong to take DKS to a 3 one lead after the four singles.

Topshooters needed to win the two doubles to take the finals to a decider and Nathan Fong and Arana Taviri gave the shooters hope when they defeated Ng and Earls.

On the next table, Vaieke had the chance to take the game to a decider when up by one point, missed an easy pink set up by John.

The Programme which reached a record 188,407 participants across eleven regions in the country last year, is on track to hit 150,000 participants for the fifth consecutive year after recording 40,575 in Term 1 and 42,340 in Term 2 totalling up to 82,915 for the year so far.

“The BSP School Kriket Programme has once again gained momentum and student participation has been very good despite the election movement around the country.